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First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia (came before Columbus)
NYT ^
| 06/05/07
| JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Posted on 06/04/2007 6:55:26 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Why did the chicken cross the Pacific Ocean? To get to the other side, in South America. How? By Polynesian canoes, which apparently arrived at least 100 years before Europeans settled the continent.
That is the conclusion of an international research team, which reported yesterday that it had found “the first unequivocal evidence for a pre-European introduction of chickens to South America,” or presumably anywhere in the New World.
The researchers said that bones buried on the South American coast were from chickens that lived between 1304 and 1424. Pottery at the site was from a similar or earlier time. A DNA analysis linked the bones, which were excavated at El Arenal on the Arauco Peninsula in south central Chile, to chickens from Polynesian islands.
The findings are being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author is Alice A. Storey, an anthropologist at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and other team members are from American Samoa, Australia, Canada and the United States.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; aintnobodyherebutus; america; animalhusbandry; arauco; chicken; chickens; dietandcuisine; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; polynesia; poultry
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To: blam; SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:56:01 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:57:20 PM PDT
by
Dysart
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:58:09 PM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Thompson Time!")
To: TigerLikesRooster
So which came first the chicken or the Polynesians?
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posted on
06/04/2007 6:58:57 PM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
That begs the obvious question; Why did the chicken cross the ocean?
To: TigerLikesRooster
And what difference does it make?
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:00:22 PM PDT
by
Khepera
(Do not remove by penalty of law!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
How could anyone tolerate a canoe full of chickens?
To: TigerLikesRooster
“Nobody here but us chickens”
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:01:34 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(Democrat: n. 1. Quiche-eating surrender donkey.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
i figured the first chickens were from france.
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:03:32 PM PDT
by
brannon
(we are all dying; some of us faster than others)
To: elhombrelibre
So which came first the chicken or the Polynesians?A chicken and an egg are lying in bed.
The chicken is leaning against the headboard smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on its face.
The egg, looking a bit pissed off, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and says,
"Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question."
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:04:42 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(Democrat: n. 1. Quiche-eating surrender donkey.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
To: sourcery
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:08:01 PM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
What did they feed the chickens, maize?
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:09:05 PM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Al Qaeda knows Iraq's strategic value, yet the Democrats work day and night for our defeat there.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
A Polynesian caught choking his chicken:
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:11:28 PM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: driftdiver
That begs the obvious question; Why did the chicken cross the ocean?
Reminds me of a friend’s variation of the old joke:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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To lick the lady’s leg!
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:17:35 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Grizzled Bear
Or the David Mamet-esque version:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
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Because the road crossed the chicken!
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:24:17 PM PDT
by
Borges
To: brannon
I thought the first ones were democrats...
To: TigerLikesRooster
“First Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia “
Well, I would have guessed France.
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posted on
06/04/2007 7:59:41 PM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Um....sooo? Do we now have to have DIVERSITY among chickens....or do we owe them something, because they were the first eaten here?
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posted on
06/04/2007 8:06:57 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(We need to cure Academentia)
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